I am an 81-year-old white guy, and I thought I had seen it all. But then I woke up to the news that Donald Trump had won the White House again. George Corley Wallace IV lives. People of a certain age will remember George “segregation now, segregation forever!” Wallace as the racist Alabama governor who stood in the doorway of a school to block little black kids from going inside. He ran for president in 1968 and was shot in a Maryland parking lot, living in a wheelchair for the rest of his life and apologizing for his racism.

Don’t look for any apologies from Trump. He’s as racist as Wallace but is devoid of compassion and empathy. Worse, he’s attracted to the kind of people who bring out the worst in him; the petty, scheming, me-first jerks who make racist jokes while they grab women where they don’t want to be grabbed. I am reminded of the famous line from the McCarthy hearings in the 50s, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” For today’s Trump the answer is no; he does not have a sense of decency.

But that question must be asked of our fellow citizens who voted for him. Did they listen to him during the campaign using Nazi dog whistles about “the enemy within?” Did they hear him denigrate people of color? Women? If they did, they agreed with him, a stunning turn of events in what I assumed was a more compassionate America. An America that could elect a woman of color to the highest office in the land simply because she was the only one who could save us from him? Apparently not.

RFK, Jr. In charge of health care in America? Elon Musk cutting the federal budget? Steve Bannon and his SS troops scheming to overturn the whole cart? What version of America is this?

For me, as an old man, I have one overriding feeling. I have five granddaughters and their nation has sold them out hoping for cheaper prices for eggs. God help us.